A second post mortem will be carried out on the body of Bob Woolmer in a bid to squash wild speculation that the Pakistan cricket coach was not murdered, reports said Wednesday.

Jamaica deputy police commissioner Mark Shields said a follow-up examination would be conducted in order to pre-empt arguments from defence lawyers in the event of an arrest.

"If we arrest someone and charge them, the defence counsel will want a second post mortem," Shields was quoted as saying in the online editions of several British newspapers.

Shields could not be immediately contacted for comment.

The second post mortem would enable authorities to release Woolmer's body for burial in South Africa without having to wait for an inquest, reports said.

Woolmer's body was found in his room at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston on March 18. He was later declared to have been murdered in "evil and extraordinary" circumstances.

Although there is no evidence that Kingston pathologist Ere Seshaiah bungled his first examination, which found that Woolmer was killed by "manual strangulation", a whispering campaign questioning the verdict has gathered pace, according to press reports.

Allegations have been levelled by former Test players and International Cricket Council officials that Woolmer died of natural causes, speculating that a broken bone in his neck may have been caused by falling against a sink.

When asked about the speculation on Monday, Shields said he was confident that Woolmer was murdered, citing evidence from the crime scene not yet disclosed to the public which supported the case.